Category Archives: writing

Anxiety: Losing my memory

Posted on April 30, 2015 by forstegrupp

Day Seventeen: Your Personality on the Page Today’s Prompt: We all have anxieties, worries, and fears. What are you scared of? Address one of your worst fears. My grandmother suffers from dementia and memory loss. My mother also forgetting things. … Continue reading →

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Dog Found

Posted on April 24, 2015 by forstegrupp

Day Thirteen: Serially Found: On day four, you wrote a post about losing something. Today’s Prompt: write about finding something. Dogs run away. The dog we have now runs across the street to eat the food which a neighbor puts out … Continue reading →

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100 word short story challenge

Posted on April 11, 2015 by forstegrupp

After their vacation, she sorted through the stack of mail, opened a letter and paused. She  looked at her husband and said, “Did you know your mom got remarried?” He put down his cell phone.

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How does beauty connect with self and writing?

Posted on August 15, 2013 by forstegrupp

Some times you are in a place so lovely that it defies description. That was the Waimea Canyon in Kaua’i in July. But isn’t this judgment subjective? Someone else might not find this view sublime because it contains no human … Continue reading →

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Poetry as a Transformation of Mind

Posted on December 3, 2012 by forstegrupp

I just read a New York Times article “Philosophy and the Poetic Imagination: by Ernie Lapore and Matthew Stone about how how poetry demands a certain type of reading which must be cultivated and nourished and sustained. Here is the … Continue reading →

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Verbalizing Nouns

Posted on October 29, 2012 by forstegrupp

I love this linguistic stuff. The facility and fluidity of English grammar allows the adoption and shifting of all kinds of words. Some purists hate the idea of a verb being used as a noun or a noun being used … Continue reading →

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Haskell and the mandalas of nature

Posted on October 29, 2012 by forstegrupp

I discovered David Haskell in this New York Times Article: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/23/science/david-haskell-finds-biology-zen-in-a-patch-of-nature.html?smid=pl-share Here he describes visiting the same place “mandala” for observation and renewal. He has a word press blog “Ramble” which I follow.

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Grammar and the dash

Posted on October 29, 2012 by forstegrupp

I liked this article about the history of the dash as a grammatical sign. Ben Yagoda discusses the versatility of the dash and shows how various writers (Dickinson, Twain, and Fitzgerald) have used it to great affect. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/22/mad-dash/?smid=pl-share

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